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Thaddeus Hoyt Ames, one of the early pioneers in the development of psychoanalysis in the United States, died April 17, 1963 at the age of seventy-eight.
He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1907. Immediately thereafter, he pursued a carefully charted course of medical studies in this country which gave him a thorough foundation in medicine, neurology, and psychiatry. In harmony with the customary procedure of that era, he went to Europe for his postgraduate work. In this ideal setting he came under the direct influence of Freud in Vienna and of Jung (who at that time was an ardent supporter of Freud) in Zurich. He also had the opportunity to further his studies in neurology and psychiatry with leading authorities, including such men as Marburg and Kraepelin.
Upon his return to the United States, Dr. Ames began the private practice of psychoanalysis. He was appointed to the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and taught psychiatry at the Cornell Medical Clinic. He became an active participating member of The New York Psychoanalytic Society during the trying period of its infancy and was elected president of the Society in 1921.
Dr. Ames contributed many important scientific papers. Those pertaining to his research on shell shock and malingering are of particular significance. His profound interest in religion allowed him to become a leader in pastoral psychiatry.
Psychoanalysis mourns the loss of an important personality; those who had the good fortune to know him have lost a sensitive, warm, cultured, wise colleague and friend.